[vdr] Re: Mplayer can only play in foreground process

[Juergen Scherer <juergen.scherer@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 18. November 2001 um 6:15:03 PM schrieb Thilo Wunderlich:

>> Does anyone know how to call a program and force it into the
> foreground,
>> even if the calling application runs in background ? Something like 
> "mplayer
>> &" but the other way around !?

> Did you try in mplayer.sh

> exec $MPLAYER $OPTS -vc $VC "$FILE" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

> does this help ?

Yes, it does, ('though I am not Martin).

Now just a bit of performance optimizing in mplayer (a 933Mhz PIII gives
some framedrops) and this would be the ultimate multimedia machine.




Greetings,
 Juergen                            
 mailto:juergen.scherer@gmx.de